Deap sea fishing charters based from the Sony Evans small craft harbour, the home of Shelly Beach Ski Boat club, in Shelly Beach South Africa can yield some good results.this Yellow din tunny was caught on Wednesday 7 October 2015.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
I am going fiahing at Shelly Beach, KZN South Africa
I have been invited to Go to sea tomorrow. We will be launching at the Sonny Evans small craft harbour, the home of the Shelly Beach Ski Boat club, and a base for the NSRI (national Sea Rescue Institute of South Africa)
I will write more tomorrow when we get back home..... looking forward to the deep sea fishing trip. We are hoping to avoid the tax collectors out there, as the sharks have been busy these last few weeks taking a rather larger than usual share of fish before they can be landed onto the boats
This blog, is in place to promote fishing, and tourism associated with the use of our beaches, along the South Coast (Hibiscus Coast) of KZN South Africa, and we have opted to use the hashtag #4u2gofishing to promote cross platform conversations in platforms such as twitter, facebook, Google plus and Pinterest and others. So I will be posting my own personal fishing stories here, and if you want your stories here send me an email to 4u2gofishing@info4u.co.za
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Monday, June 1, 2015
The 4u2gofishing project needs your help
We need you to sign a petition so that we can use this as a mandate when attending public meetings.Please take a peep see at this petition then consider signing it and sharing it further
The purpose, aims and objectives of the 4u2gofishing project have changed, due to the dramatic impact within the tourism industry of the hibiscus coats that we saw when the idea of the MPA or Marine Protected Area for the Hibiscus coast was first brought to the attention of the public.
Tourism numbers, dipped and many within the hibiscus coast tourism industry are now making plans, or at least considering the idea to step out of the main stream tourism industry as associated with recreational use of the South Coast beaches.
Now that being said I was shocked when I did a little personal research by asking folks on the street in Shelly Beach, asking what they actually knew about this PROPOSED MARINE PROTECTED AREA and what they knew about the South African Governments OPERATION PHAKISA
I will need to do some follow up and properly document some research around this issue, is it is more serious than I first thought. In our view this freeing up of the oceans resources, as discussed in operation Phakisa's documentation, means that there will be some form of exploitation of the oils and gas reserves within the ocean bed, and that this will necessitate some form of drilling and associated pipelines, or shipping platforms to be put in place for the oil and / or gas to be transported from the riggs to the shore, then further to the refineries or storage facilities so that this resource may be exploited in a more organized manner.
There is no way that this exploitation of our ocean resources will be stopped, so the next best option is to ensure that it is done as best possible to ensure minimum negative impact on our lives, and maximum impact on our local economy. The only way that this will happen is if the people on the ground attend the PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS MEETINGS mandated by the many laws and associated legislation that are in place to protect both people and the environment.
Our primary tool will be the ICMA or the Integrated Coastal Management Act or 2008 and associated
legislation. For us to succeed we require your help in many different ways, and signing our online petition with AVAAZ.ORG will be the first step. This will show us that at least a few folks out there care, and give us the encouragement to do the other stuff....
We need you to sign a petition so that we can use this as a mandate when attending public meetings.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Colourful wrasse caught at 10 Downing street, Uvongo, South Coast KZN
Went wishing at my favourite spot , 10 downing street, Uvongo and caught this rather colorful fell, a type of wrasse earlier today (Sunday may 24)used a no 10 hook and prawn bait. Trace was a standard christmas tree trace with two hooks and a 2 ounce sinker.. caught this fella on the top hook, and he had me tangled in the rocks for a while, but I just held on and he pulled the sinker loose himself.
Surf was small, and there was no side wash at all. I had a few other bites, but this was the only one that took the bait nicely.
Now on a more serious note, the issue of the proposed marine protected area (MPA) for the south coast is still happening, but it has moved further north to the area around the Aliwal shoal, apparently some where between Umkomaas and Scotsborugh, but I will need to confirm this.
The guys from the Department of environmental affairs seem a bit too quite for my liking, and nobody is being helpful, which makes me a bit nervous, as the original issue apparently came about because an Environmentalist group in the Scotsborugh area requested this. Once again things are not clear, and nobody is talking openly so I will need to do a bit of old fashioned investigation...
When I know more I will let you all know whats going down with the MPA for the KZN South Coast.
In the mean time you can check out other fishing stories using the #4u2gofishing hashtag in your favourite search engine, or take a peep see at our Google Plus page +4u2gofishing or the 4u2gofishing G+ community You can also follow me on my personal Google Plus profile at +Frank Gainsford
or check out some fishing pics that others have shared with us on our pinterest board
If you want to add a story here, or have your pics added to our pinterest board, give me a shout, as I am looking for some help with the 4u2gofishing project.
send any info request to 4u2gofishing@info4u.co.za
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Fishing at 10 downing street
On 2 May 2015 I was fishing just to the left (North) of Lolipop lane, and the guys slightly more north caught this nice Black tip King Fish, on crayfish tail, using a 3 O hook and a running trace.
I was jealous as you can imagine, coz we only got a fair sized bronze beam, but were using cracker shrimps and pink prawns. I should not complain, as my mate and I were targeting Bronze Bream any way, as we often get them at 10 downing street.
If you have a pic of fish caught along the South Coast oif KZN and want to have it shown here within these pages, along with your story, then send an email to 4u2gofishing@info4u.co.za and we will see what can be done..
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Bronze bream set free on freedom day
I have been neglecting this space since the guys who asked me to set up a marketing platform for fishing on the South Coast of KZN changed their minds when they heard that the government was wanting to introduce an MPA (Marine Protected Area) along the lower South Coast, and that all fishing may be banned.
It turned out that the MPA was put on hold, while the issues were being investigated. this came about due to the immense pressure that some local groups put on the department of Environmental Affairs, who wanted to put this MPA in place. Finding the latest developments on this MPA is a bit difficult, as all concerned seem to be very tight lipped at this stage, so I will be asking around over the next few days then make a new post and tell all you guys who read this blog what the latest development is.
In the mean time I went fishing on April 27, (Freeddom Day) on the rocks just North of Uvongo, but South of Orange rocks, where I was lucky enough to catch this bronze bream. I used a combo of crayfish tail and mud prawns, or as some call them cracker shrimps, as bait, and used a running trace with both sinker and hook lines at 400 mm (40 Cm or about 14 inches) hook size was a No. 4 old style mustard hook.
This Bronze bream was 310 mm big, but I tossed him back into the water live and healthy after dislodging the hook from the side of his mouth, much to the displeasure of some onlookers who wanted this poor fish for the pot.
Back to the issue of the MPA Proposed for the lower South Coast... After the meeting held in early January there has been no feed back, besides the minutes of the meeting, from the conveners of the meeting or the committee elected to deal with the issue, from a tourism and business perspective. I will be asking around during the next few days, and hope to let you know more about the issues associated with this Proposed MPA in the near future.
I will also be doing a bit of marketing and post a few pics of the fish caught and the boating that takes place at the SONNY EVENS SMALL CRAFT HARBOR at shell beach. After all this blog was put in place to market the fishing activities along the KZN South Coast, so I might as well get on and do some tourism marketing here.
If you have a story about any issue along the South Coast of KZN that you would like to read about here send me an email at 4u2gofishing@info4u.co.za and I will make it happen. you may also phone me directly on my cell 0725955111. Remember this blog is all about getting fishermen to come and spend their fishing time along the KZN South Coast, so tell me what you want to read here and I will make it happen.
hashtags for this post = #4u2gofishing #marineprotectedarea
It turned out that the MPA was put on hold, while the issues were being investigated. this came about due to the immense pressure that some local groups put on the department of Environmental Affairs, who wanted to put this MPA in place. Finding the latest developments on this MPA is a bit difficult, as all concerned seem to be very tight lipped at this stage, so I will be asking around over the next few days then make a new post and tell all you guys who read this blog what the latest development is.
In the mean time I went fishing on April 27, (Freeddom Day) on the rocks just North of Uvongo, but South of Orange rocks, where I was lucky enough to catch this bronze bream. I used a combo of crayfish tail and mud prawns, or as some call them cracker shrimps, as bait, and used a running trace with both sinker and hook lines at 400 mm (40 Cm or about 14 inches) hook size was a No. 4 old style mustard hook.
Back to the issue of the MPA Proposed for the lower South Coast... After the meeting held in early January there has been no feed back, besides the minutes of the meeting, from the conveners of the meeting or the committee elected to deal with the issue, from a tourism and business perspective. I will be asking around during the next few days, and hope to let you know more about the issues associated with this Proposed MPA in the near future.
I will also be doing a bit of marketing and post a few pics of the fish caught and the boating that takes place at the SONNY EVENS SMALL CRAFT HARBOR at shell beach. After all this blog was put in place to market the fishing activities along the KZN South Coast, so I might as well get on and do some tourism marketing here.
If you have a story about any issue along the South Coast of KZN that you would like to read about here send me an email at 4u2gofishing@info4u.co.za and I will make it happen. you may also phone me directly on my cell 0725955111. Remember this blog is all about getting fishermen to come and spend their fishing time along the KZN South Coast, so tell me what you want to read here and I will make it happen.
hashtags for this post = #4u2gofishing #marineprotectedarea
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Fishing Orange Rocks Uvongo KZN South Africa
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| Garic by Algy Dooling |
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| Ernest throws back Hammer head |
Fishing Orange Rocks in Uvongo along the South Coast of KZN South Africa is always a great experience
I have not blogged here a while, as I have been busy writing my book on #FUFISM or Functional User Freindly Integrated Social Media, and took a break to clear my mind, as I was getting stuck and thinking in SQUIRCLES.
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| Pieter Herbst with his Yellow tail. |
Yesterday Pieter Herbst caught this 4 Kg Yellow tail on live shad
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| Ernest Botha with Hammer Head Shark |
The Shad Season opens again tomorrow, (one December 2014, and I am looking forward to eating a few smoked shad before they disappear until June / July next year.
Sunrise at orange rocks this morning.
Read more about fishing on the South Coast of KZN South Africa by searching the hash tag #4u2gofishing or visit our fishing community on Google plus at https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/113105142481933358360/+4u2gofishingBlogspotteam/posts
Saturday, October 18, 2014
MPA proposed for KZN South Coast
Issues with the propsed MPA (Marine Protected Area) along the hibiscus Coast of KZN South Africa
I recently heard that the South African Government is in the process
of creating a new MPA (Marine Protected Area) along the entire Hibiscus
Coast, and need to gather more info about this. The ICMA (Integrated
Coastal Management Act) specifies how this should be accomplished along
with the mandated public participation procedure and other formalities
that need to be completed during the process. Hibiscus Coast is the brand name for the lower South Coast of KZN South Africa.We will be using the hashtag #4u2gofishing for marketing the fishing opportunities within the area as well as the issues around this new MPA ( #MPA ) (Marine Protected area) that has been proposed, which some are already working on. the hashtag #marineprotectedarea will also be used in our efforts to get the public aware of all the issues at stake here
MORE COMING AFTER SOME RESEARCH
Just as many of the issues were side stepped during the implementation of the 4x4 ban, so many issues are currently being side stepped here, and this blog will be our preferred platform to address these issues and get the necessary public support to take up the issue at the highest level, as this is bad news for business along the Hibiscus Coast . Most people do not realize the amount of tourism that is connected both directly and indirectly to the fishing industry, and closing the entire Hibicus Coast to fishing will result in many thousands of job losses.
Exactly how many people will loose their ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES (read jobs)
will need to be calculated during the PPPM's (Public Participation
Process Meetings) that are mandated by the ICMA (Integrated Coastal
Management Act) during the various implementation phases as is
prescribed in the ICMA and related legislation.We will
be placing links to the various legislation and related public
participation process meetings here and if you want to know more then
let us know in the comments of this blog.
MORE COMING AFTER SOME RESEARCH
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
During last week I went on a road trip to St. Lucia along the Elephant Coast of KZN South Africa to put my eyes on the St. Lucia Estuary and the water levels in Lake St. Lucia, as I have been hearing very conflicting stories about these issues from people in St. Lucia.
We traveled up to St. Lucia on Wednesday 24 September and came back home on Saturday 27 September. We stayed over at BUDGET BACKPACKERS in Mckenzie street (the main road) and were confronted with a town that had no municipal water supply. Fortunately the management at BUDGET BACK PACKERS has installed a 5 000 liter JOJO water tank, and they had water, but it was only on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, so we had to plan our days around the times that we could shower.
Lake St. Lucia has plenty of water, but the mouth is still closed to the Indian Ocean. The Umfolozi River mouth was open, but it was busy closing fast due to the very low river levels. The back channels that are supposed to be in place to connect the St. Lucia lake system to the Umfolozi river system is apparently open, but the water flow during tide changes is very minimal and hardly noticeable in the lake levels.
The channel that the IWPA (iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority) dug open to connect the Umfolozi river system to the lake system a few months back has sanded up and wind erosion of the beaches has contributed to this in a big way. There has been massive sanding up of the region and this is very evident when we visited Cape Vidal, where the beaches have grown considerably and now stretch a good 100 meters plus from the Vidal on-ramp, and even cover the small reef that usually protected the launch site from the south east point of Vidal bay. Many areas of mission rocks were also sanded up but not as seriously as either Cape Vidal or St. Lucia.
During our short stay in St. Lucia many asked why I had stopped fighting the 4x4 ban issue, and asked me to take up the fight again. some also pointed out that the IWPA was doing many strange things, and that they are due to start mining the mouth of the St. Lucia Estuary system in the near future. This still needs to be confirmed, but I have not heard about any PPP (Public Participation Process) for this activity, and have not seen anything about an EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) for this in terms of the ICMA (Integrated Coastal Management Act) and the NEMA (National Environmental Management Act)
The fishing was actually quite terrible during our short stay in St. Lucia and the wind was blowing North East for most of the time. When the wind did die down, it was only for very short spells, and a BIG SOUTH WEST BUSTER was predicted for Saturday Night and Sunday, so we packed up and left early.
By that time I had spoken to a few of the locals and had gathered all the info that I was going to get from people on the ground who were not active in politics or town management issues. The IWPA (iSimanagliso Wetland Park Authority) has not changed their attitude, and is still making things uncomfortable for ther domestic tourism market. They still support the 4x4 ban and still call domestic tourists visitors, so that they can confuse all official reporting issues around tourism numbers.
The IWPA is still not playing the game, and they have not held very many PPPM (Public Participation Process Meetings) where the water levels, and a solution to the non tidal motions in lake st. Lucia are discussed.
I will need to do some extra research around these issues and write a new post about those during the next few weeks. In the mean time go over to our Google Plus page (4u2gofishing) or search on Google using the hashtag #4u2gofishing
We traveled up to St. Lucia on Wednesday 24 September and came back home on Saturday 27 September. We stayed over at BUDGET BACKPACKERS in Mckenzie street (the main road) and were confronted with a town that had no municipal water supply. Fortunately the management at BUDGET BACK PACKERS has installed a 5 000 liter JOJO water tank, and they had water, but it was only on for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, so we had to plan our days around the times that we could shower.
Lake St. Lucia has plenty of water, but the mouth is still closed to the Indian Ocean. The Umfolozi River mouth was open, but it was busy closing fast due to the very low river levels. The back channels that are supposed to be in place to connect the St. Lucia lake system to the Umfolozi river system is apparently open, but the water flow during tide changes is very minimal and hardly noticeable in the lake levels.
The channel that the IWPA (iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority) dug open to connect the Umfolozi river system to the lake system a few months back has sanded up and wind erosion of the beaches has contributed to this in a big way. There has been massive sanding up of the region and this is very evident when we visited Cape Vidal, where the beaches have grown considerably and now stretch a good 100 meters plus from the Vidal on-ramp, and even cover the small reef that usually protected the launch site from the south east point of Vidal bay. Many areas of mission rocks were also sanded up but not as seriously as either Cape Vidal or St. Lucia.
During our short stay in St. Lucia many asked why I had stopped fighting the 4x4 ban issue, and asked me to take up the fight again. some also pointed out that the IWPA was doing many strange things, and that they are due to start mining the mouth of the St. Lucia Estuary system in the near future. This still needs to be confirmed, but I have not heard about any PPP (Public Participation Process) for this activity, and have not seen anything about an EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) for this in terms of the ICMA (Integrated Coastal Management Act) and the NEMA (National Environmental Management Act)
The fishing was actually quite terrible during our short stay in St. Lucia and the wind was blowing North East for most of the time. When the wind did die down, it was only for very short spells, and a BIG SOUTH WEST BUSTER was predicted for Saturday Night and Sunday, so we packed up and left early.
By that time I had spoken to a few of the locals and had gathered all the info that I was going to get from people on the ground who were not active in politics or town management issues. The IWPA (iSimanagliso Wetland Park Authority) has not changed their attitude, and is still making things uncomfortable for ther domestic tourism market. They still support the 4x4 ban and still call domestic tourists visitors, so that they can confuse all official reporting issues around tourism numbers.
The IWPA is still not playing the game, and they have not held very many PPPM (Public Participation Process Meetings) where the water levels, and a solution to the non tidal motions in lake st. Lucia are discussed.
I will need to do some extra research around these issues and write a new post about those during the next few weeks. In the mean time go over to our Google Plus page (4u2gofishing) or search on Google using the hashtag #4u2gofishing
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Who is 4u2gofishing ?
Are you looking for a fishing holiday?
4u2gofishing is all about helping you to take a few days off work and come down to the South Coast of KZN South Africa for a fishing flavoured break.
In this blog you will find stories about some of the spots where we would like you to experience the pleasures of fishing. We will show you - boat fishing, both seep see and estuary based experiences
- Rock and surf fishing spots
- estuary fishing spots
- local golf courses where you could play golf on the days when the surf is up and boats stay at home.
- pubs and restaurants where you may spend the nights relaxing and talking about your trip.
- walking trails that you may experience when the surf wont let you go to sea.
- arts and crafts outlets where you may buy a memento of your holiday at the coast.
- beautiful sunrises with the sun coming up over the Indian ocean
- where you will be sleeping over and relaxing after a hard days deep sea fishing.
#4u2gofishing
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